The decameron posters & prints

The Decameron Anonymous

The meal. Miniature from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1432 Anonymous

The Tenth Day of the Decameron Thomas Stothard

A Scene from the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, c.1492 Italian School

Isabella and the Pot of Basil William Holman Hunt

A Scene from the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, c.1492 Italian School

The Decameron, The Garden of the Villa Theodor Baierl

The Seventh day of the Decameron Paul Falconer Poole

The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Second episode) Sandro Botticelli

How Liza Loved the King, 1890 Edmund Blair Leighton

The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Third episode), ca 1483 Sandro Botticelli

The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo, 1889 Marie Spartali Stillman

Sigismunda, May 5, 1790 James Basire I

The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (First episode), ca 1483 Sandro Botticelli

The Story of Griselda. Part II: Exile, c.1490-1495 Master of the Story of Griselda

The Story of Griselda. Part I: Marriage, c.1490-1495 Master of the Story of Griselda

The Story of Griselda. Part III: Reunion, c.1490-1495 Master of the Story of Griselda

The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (I): Encounter with the Damned in the Pine Forest Sandro Botticelli

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion, 1430s Master of Guillebert de Mets; Workshop

Hamlet: Hamlet and Horatio with the Grave Diggers, 1843 Eugène Delacroix

Democritus, engraved from a bust in the Vatican Museum Alexander Day

Othello and Desdemona before the Senate Sir John Gilbert

The three graces, from 'Game of Mythology', 1644 Stefano della Bella

Ceiling decoration of the Camera dei Venti (Chamber of the Winds), 1526-1534 Giulio Romano

Hamlet: The Death of Ophelia, 1843 Eugène Delacroix

The Apotheosis of the Duchess of Devonshire Anonymous

The Funeral of Decius Mus, 1774 Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Devil and Tom Walker, 1856 John Quidor

The Deposition Jacopino del Conte

The Deposition, 1490 Gerolamo dai Libri

Madonna del Cardellino (Madonna of the Goldfinch) Raphael

Hamlet: The Death of Hamlet, 1843 Eugène Delacroix

The Baron... saluted Candide with some notable kicks on the breech and drove him out of doors Jean Michel the Younger Moreau

The Hell Filippo Napoletano

The Souls of Acheron, 1898 Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Scene in a Park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte, c.1735 Marcellus the Younger Laroon